POSTGRADUATE COURSE DESCRIPTIONS Postgraduate Course Descriptions
DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING
ELEC 501 CMOS VLSl Design [2-0-3:3]
CMOS process and design rules, MOS device electronics; CMOS circuit and logiccircuit characterisation and performance estimation, VLSl design and verification tools.
Laboratory work will be centred on industry standard tools. Exclusion: ELEC 301 Background: ELEC 151 and ELEC 221
ELEC 503 ASlC Design with Field Programmable Gate Arrays [2-0-3:3]
ASlC design cycle using Field Programmable Field Arrays (FPGA): specification, design, implementation and testing. Basics of FPGAs; design implementation; verifica- tion using industrial standard logic simulators; testing strategies and test vectors generation. Exclusion: ELEC 303
ELEC 504 Analogue VLSl [3-0-0:3]
Analysis and design of monolithic operational and wide-band amplifiers; noise in integrated circuits; voltage reference circuits; switched capacitor filters; AID and DIA converters. Analogue application specific ICs. Exclusion: ELEC 302
ELEC 505 Advanced Semiconductor Devices [3-0-0:3]
[Previous Course Code: ELEC 5211 Principles and characteristics of semiconductor devices, with emphasis on bipolar and MOS devices: structures and electrical charac- teristics; details of high-field, high-current, and scaling effects, for present and future technologies. Device models for simulation. Electrical characterisation techniques and device model parameter extraction. Numerical device simulators. Selected current research topics. Exclusion: ELEC 321
ELEC 506 Semiconductor Optoelectronic Devices [3-0-0:3]
{Previous Course Code: ELEC 5221 Overview of semiconductor physics, optical processes in semiconductors; principles of optoelectronic devices; semiconductor lasers; light-emitting diodes; photodetectors; solar cells; linear electrooptic effect and nonlinear optics; semiconductor modulators; bistable devices. Exclusion: ELEC 323 ELEC 507 Microelectronics Fabrication Technology [3-0-0:3]
[Previous Course Code: ELEC 5231 Process technologies in IC fabrication: epitaxial growth; chemical vapour and physical vapour deposition of films; thermal oxidation;
diffusion; ion implantation; rnicrolithography; wetidry etching processes; process inte- gration of MOS and bipolar technologies. Exclusion: ELEC 322
ELEC 508 Integrated Circuit Fabrication Laboratory [I -0-6:3]
[Previous Course Code: ELEC 5241 Laboratory course requiring hands-on work in fabricating MOS transistors utilising individual fabrication modules. Processes include photolithography, dry etching, wet etching, metal sputtering, oxidation, pre-deposition drive-in and low-pressure-chemical vapour deposition.
ELEC 509 Modern Optical Devices and Systems [2-0-3:3]
Fourier-optics-based devices and systems: diffraction theory and approximations, optical transfer functions and signal processing, holography and optical computing systems.
ELEC 51 1 Electromagnetic Wave Propagation, Radiation and [3-0-0:3]
Scattering
[Previous Course Code: ELEC 5451 Advanced treatment of electromagnetic wave propagation, applications of electromagnetic theory such as the uniform theory of
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diffraction, timedomain finite difference techniques, indoor and outdoor propagation prediction, radiation, Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction and inverse scattering.
ELEC 514 Integrated Power Devices and Technology [3QO:3]
Design of monolithic power integrated devices and technology for consumer and control applications: integrable power bipolar, MOSFET, and mixed bipolarIMOS devices;
power control interfacing circuits; fabrication technology; limitations and protection;
packaging; reliability; consumer and industrial applications. Background: Undergradu- ate electronic circuit and device courses
ELEC 515 Solid State Electronics [34-0:3]
A brief review of solid state theories that are related to the operations of advanced semiconductor devices. Practical aspects of device design, simulation, characterisa- tion and modelling.
ELEC 516 Digital VLSl System Design and Design Automation [2-0-3:3]
Structured design styles; specification, synthesis, design, layout and simulation. Struc- tured chip design and system design silicon compiler; high-level and logic level synthesis, physical level; Design Automation tools and their applications. Background ELEC 151 Corequisite: ELEC 501 Exclusion: ELEC 306
ELEC 518 Microwave and RF Engineering [2-0-3:3]
lntroduction to techniques for analysis, design, fabrication and measurement of passive and active circuits at frequencies above one GHz. Includes laboratory for design, fabrication and test of microwave circuits discussed in lectures. Exclusion: ELEC 344
ELEC 520 Optical Communication Systems [3-0-0:3]
Overview of optical fibre communications. Optical fibres: propagation, single and multimode, dispersion, attenuation, absorption and scattering, cables and connectors.
Optical sources and transmitters. Optical detectors and receivers. System design and performance. Coherent lightwave systems. Multiplexing. Optical applications such as video distribution systems and local area networks.
ELEC 525 Flat Panel Displays [3-0-0:3]
Discussions on various flat panel display technologies including plasma display panels, electroluminescence, field emission and liquid crystal displays. Optics and electronics of display devices.
ELEC 526 Circuits for Communication [3-0-0:3]
Analysis and design of electronics circuits for communication systems. Analysis of distortion in amplifiers. Design of large-signal and power amplifiers. Oscillators and voltage-controlled oscillators, mixer, phase-locked loops, and their applications.
ELEC 527 Digital Integrated Circuit Design [3-W:3]
CMOS inverters; combinational and sequential logic gates; regenerative logic circuits;
static and dynamic implementations; arithmetic building blocks; memory core; memory peripheral circuitry. Design issues and optimisation for delay, area, and power dissipation. Background: ELEC 102 and ELEC 151 Exclusion: ELEC 305
ELEC 530 Probability, Random Variables and [3-0-0:3]
Stochastic Processes
[Previous Course Code: ELEC 5101 Axioms of probability; Bayes theorem; distribution and density functions; functions of random variables; characteristic functions; moments
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and conditional statistics; stochastic, Poisson, Markovand discrete processes; stationarity and ergodicity; system identification. Exclusion: ELEC 310
ELEC 531 Topics In Digital Signal Processing [3-0-0:3]
Selected topics in the fundamentals of digital signal processing such as: multidimen- sional digital signal processing, parametric estimation of signals, multirate digital signal processing, wavelet based digital signal processing, adaptive digital signal processing, linear and nonlinear filter theory.
ELEC 532 Digital Image Processing [3-0-0:3]
[Previous Course Code: ELEC 51 11 Two-dimensional signals and systems; image perception; image sampling and transforms; image enhancement and restoration;
linear and nonlinear image filtering; image representation and recognition; image compression; computer vision. Background: ELEC 21 1 Exclusion: ELEC 317 Note:
This course is usually cross-listed with COMP.
ELEC 533 Video Signal Processing [3-0-0:3]
Characteristics of video signals; compression techniques; differential pulse code modulation; predictive coding; transform coding; motion estimation techniques; vector quantisation; subband coding; pyramid coding; entropy coding; coding standards; real- time video signal processing; system examples and applications. Exclusion: ELEC 331 Prerequisites: ELEC 31 7 and ELEC 530
ELEC 534 Speech and Audio Processing [3-0-0:3]
Time-frequency speech representation, vocal tractlear model, language phonetics, speech quality measurements, digital speech coding (ADPCM, CELP, MPLPC, SBC, LD-VXC), Mozer technique, speech synthesis, speech recognition, room acoustics.
Background: Digital signal processing
ELEC 536 Digital Communications [3-0-0:3]
[Previous Course Code: ELEC514in 92/93] Overview of signals and systems. Review of probability and stochastic processes. Binary data detection. Optimum receiver principles. Performance analysis of basic digital modulation techniques. M-ary communications systems. Signalling through band-limited channels. Optimum trans- mitting and receiving filters. Comparison of digital communications systems. Spread spectrum systems. Application of spread spectrum to telecommunications. Back- ground: Introductory probability
ELEC 537 Communication Networks [3-0-0:31
Overview of telecommunication networks: network services, topologies, switching and multiplexing. Layered architectures in data networks: OSI standards architecture and protocols, x.25 and other architectural models. Review of probability and stochastic processes. lntroduction to queueing theory: Poisson processes, M/M/l queue, state- dependent queues, M/G/l queues and mean value analysis. Routing and flow control in packet-switched networks. Random access techniques. lntroduction to circuit switching, elements of telephone and traffic engineering, digital switching networks.
lntegrated voice and data. lntroduction to broadband ISDN. Backaround lntroductorv
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probability theory
ELEC 538 Digital Circuit-Switched Networks [3-0-0:3]
Current topics in digital circuit switching: introduction to circuit switching, elements of telephone traffic engineering, space and time switching, call processing in digital circuit- switched systems, overload control mechanisms, non-hierarchical routing, common channel signaling. Emphasis on modelling and quantitative performance analysis.
Prerequisite: ELEC 537
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ELEC 539 Broadband Communication Networks [3-0-0:3]
lntroduction to the architectures and protocols of integrated broadband communication networks. T o ~ i c s include: network services and reauirement. networking and switchinq architectures' for high-speed communication, traffic char&terisatio< performance evaluation techniques, congestion controls, protocol issues, and case studies. Prereq- uisite: ELEC 537
ELEC 540 Artificial Neural Networks [3-0-0:3]
[Previous Course Code: ELEC5161 Theory and applications of neurocomputing.
Artificial neural networks as biologically inspired computational models for supervised learning, unsupe~ised learning, reinforcement learning, associative memory, optimisation, etc.
ELEC 541 Adaptive F u u y Logic Control [3-0-0:3]
Crisp and fuzzy set theory, fuzzy logic, fuzzy graph, calculi of fuzzy graphs, fuzzy measure theory, fuzzy integral, fuzzy c-mean, fuzzy logiccontrol, applications, adaptive fuzzy logic, learning rules, neuronal implementations, current research issues.
ELEC 543 Information Theory and Error-Correcting Codes [3-0-0:3]
Communication and info!mation theory; self and mutual information measures; channel models and capacity; source coding; hamming codes; cyclic codes; BCH and Reed- Solomon codes; burst error-correcting codes; convolutional codes; rate-distortion theory. Background: ELEC 21 4 Exclusion: ELEC 332
ELEC 544 Signal Detection and Estimation [3-0-0:3]
lntroduction to detection and estimation theory, with applications to communication, control and radar systems; decision-theory concepts and optimum-receiver principles;
detection of random signals in noise; coherent and noncoherent detection; parameter estimation; linear and nonlinear estimation.
ELEC 546 Wireless Personal Communication Systems [3-0-0:3]
Overview and frequency reuse. Radio propagation environments. Wireless link:
transceiver architecture, effects of channel impairments, techniques to mitigate impair- ments. Wireless systems: TDMAIFDMA systems, CDMA systems, packetised access systems. Wireless networks.
ELEC 550 Computer Aided Design of Digital Systems [3-0-0:3]
System, behavioral and logic level synthesis of digital systems; physical design of digital circuits; integrated circuit design methods; timing and power analysis; simulation at different design abstraction levels. Prerequisites: ELEC 501 and ELEC 301
ELEC 560 Linear System Theory [3-0-0:3]
Introduces modern system theory, with applications to control, signal processing and related topics. ~asic-system concepts, state-space and I10 representation, properties of linear svstems. controllabilitv. observabilitv. minimalitv. transfer function matrices, state and ;utput feedback, stabkty, observers, bptimal re&lators. Background MATH 151, MATH 152 and ELEC 21 1
ELEC 561 Multivariable Control [3-0-0:3]
Analysis and synthesis techniques for multi-input and multi-output control systems;
stabilisation theory; performance specification; system robustness; LQR problem;
Kalman filtering; LQG problem; H-2 optimal control; H-infinity control. Prerequisites:
ELEC 371 and ELEC 560. Exclusion: MECH 562
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ELEC 562 Nonlinear Systems: Analysis, Stability and Control [3-0-0:3]
lntroduction to nonlinear dynamical systems, differential equations, second-order systems, index theory, Poincare-Bendixson theorem, stability by direct and indirect methods of Lyapunov, input-output stability, geometric theory of control for nonlinear systems, exact linearisation by nonlinear feedback. Exclusion: MECH 564
ELEC 563 Advanced Digital Control System Design [3-0-0:3]
Intensive introduction to digital control systems desian. Students attend ELEC 377 course lectures and also work on advanced problem sets and laboratory experiments.
Background ELEC 102, ELEC 1 1 2, or MECH 102 and MECH 261. Exclusions: ELEC 377, MECH 563
ELEC 564 Robot Manipulation [3-0-3:3]
Extensive introduction to robot manipulation theory from a geometric viewpoint. Rigid body kinematics; spatial and body representation of rigid body velocities; coordinate transformations; forward kinematics of open-chain manipulators; solution of inverse kinematics; robot workspaces; nonlinear decoupling control and force control. Exclu- sion: ELEC 374
ELEC 565 Robot Motion Planning [3-0-0:3]
Kinematics of multifingered robotic hands: grasp statics, planning and constraints, geometry of surfaces, kinematics of contact. Robot hand dynamics. Control of multifingered robotic hands. Robot motion planning: holonomic constraints versus nonholonomic constraints, holonomic and nonholonomic motion planning.
ELEC 566 Stochastic Control [3-0-0:3]
Probability and random variables, LQG problems, least square estimation, Separation theorem, Kalman filters, stochastic differential equations, Poisson counters, discrete event systems. Prerequisite: ELEC 530
ELEC 690 Independent Study [I-3 credits]
[Previous Course Code: ELEC 5901 Selected topics in electrical and electronic engineering studied under the supervision of a faculfy member.
ELEC 691 Special Topics [I -3 credit(s)]
Selected topics of current interest. May be repeated for credit, if different topics are covered.
ELEC 695 Departmental Seminar [I -0-0:1]
[Previous Course Code: ELEC 5921 Series of seminar topics presented by students, faculty and guest speakers; may be repeated for credit.
ELEC 698 MSc Project [3 credits]
[Previous Course Code: ELEC 690in 91/92] Independent project carried out under the supervision of a faculty member.
ELEC 699 MPhil Thesis Research
Master's thesis research supervised by a faculty member. A successful defence of the thesis leads to the grade Pass or Pass with Distinction. No course credit is assigned.
ELEC 799 Doctoral Thesis Research
Original and independent doctoral thesis research. A successful defence of the thesis leads to the grade Pass or Pass with Distinction. No course credit is assigned.
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